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Word: wheelchair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...HUPD unit was dispatched to assist a person who had fallen out of a wheelchair...

Author: By Ben M. Briandet and Rajae Merzoug, S | Title: Police Log | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

MOOSE MURDERS, 1983 This farce featured Holland Taylor as the wife of a quadriplegic who rose from his wheelchair and kicked a moose-suited attacker in the groin during the climax. It ran for one performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombs over Broadway | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

Ellison, who is paralyzed from the neck down, delivered the speech from a wheelchair and told the audience about sharing a room with her mother for all four years...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: O'Brien Returns to Harvard | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...tone that indicated I might benefit from a class she teaches to interested adults at U.S.C. called "Your Aging Parents." For one thing, "nursing home" is an antiquated term; her students learn that options range from long-term assisted-living facilities to short-term rehab to building a wheelchair ramp from driveway to door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Delicate Subject | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...Everything" began with his wife's diabetes. "She just lost her toe in 1984," he says. Then "they had to cut her leg. And they had to keep cutting it off." Finally, they amputated both legs. To accommodate her wheelchair, Smith built a ramp and made other renovations. To pay for it all and to keep up with the monthly payments on all his credit cards, he borrowed against his house, which had been paid off. "I had what they called triple-A credit," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Money & Politics: Who Gets Hurt?: Soaked By Congress | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

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